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Ranked Choice Vote Details

Ranked Choice Vote ID	1163
Ranked Choice Vote	Mock Ranked Choice Vote for Proposal 1161: Mock Election of Green Party Soup Ingredients
Type	Open Ballot
Number of Seats	10
Ranked Choice Vote Administrator	Holly Hart
Phase	Closed
Discussion	10/09/2023 - 10/10/2023
Voting	10/11/2023 - 10/22/2023
Result	Results
Presens Quorum	31 0.6666
Candidates	Yellow Onion Shallots Carrots Celery Turnip Kale White Beans Navy Beans Barley Garlic MSG Salt Pepper Potatoes Parsley Chicken Bones Lentils Pork Sausage Tempeh Tomatoes Bok Choy Spinach Chicken Breast Meat White Wine NOC Horseradish Canteloupe

Background

his is a mock ranked choice vote election to support the discussion of proposal #1161.

This is a rank choice vote whereby the National Committee is electing up to ten ingredients to cook in a pot of water to make soup. The ingredient candidates are presented on the ballot.

The ballot will be open. Votes can be changed until the vote closes.

There are 24 eligible ingredients plus an electable “NOTA,” which in this ranked choice vote is called NO OTHER INGREDIENT.
Write-ins are allowed. During the voting period delegates can see which ingredients other delegates are writing in and can decide to include those same write-ins on their ballot. If a write-in ingredient is elected, and is eligible for the soup according to the kitchen bylaws, that ingredient will be added to the soup.

All ingredients may be either ranked or left blank according to the rules of ranked choice voting.

The Floor Manager issues the following guidance to delegates:

A delegate should ABSTAIN from the vote if they don’t care what ingredients are put in the soup; this means that they will allow other delegates’ selections to decide the result. If enough other delegates also abstain and prevent any ingredient from reaching a minimum threshold for election, then instead of soup there will be a pot of hot water.

A delegate should rank NO OTHER INGREDIENT as #1 if they wish for a pot of hot water with no ingredients. If, after the vote closes, NO OTHER INGREDIENT achieves #1 final ranking, then instead of soup there will be a pot of hot water. Any election of a #2, #3 etc. ingredient is void. Delegates can still rank other ingredients #2, #3, #4, etc. if they have ingredient preferences that they wish to be ranked in the event that NO OTHER INGREDIENT does not achieve a #1 final ranking.

A delegate’s vote can reflect a desire to elect fewer than 10 ingredients. If, for example, a delegate believes that only 5 ingredients, not ten, should be added to the soup, then they should rank NO OTHER INGREDIENT as #6. If after the vote closes NO OTHER INGREDIENT achieves a #6 final ranking, the election of other ingredients is void, and only 5 ingredients will be added to the soup. The delegate in this example can still choose to rank other ingredients at #7, #8, #9, #10, etc. if they wish for these preferences to be considered in the event that NO OTHER INGREDIENT does not achieve the final ranking hoped for.

A delegate has the right to an “implicit NOTA” choice by not ranking any ingredient. If enough other delegates also leave a given ingredient unranked it will prevent that ingredient from reaching the minimum threshold for election, in which case that ingredient will not be elected.

In ranked choice votes that are public there is a chance that some delegations will attempt to game the results. In this mock election we ask those delegations who attempt to game the results to use the rest of the discussion period for proposal #1161 to reveal what they did to game the system and report back on how effective it was.

Because public ranked choice votes can be “gamed” some delegates may wish to wait until the last possible moment to cast their vote. The later it is that votes are cast the less effective any attempts at gaming the vote will be. Proposal #1161 asks future Floor Managers to issue such advice until such time that a fix to the programming can be made to further reduce the risk of gaming.

Proposal #1161 posits that when reconciling the two values expressed in Article VI Section 2.4 of GPUS Bylaws, the value of open ballots is primary and the value of totally blocking attempts at gaming is secondary.

Delegates are advised that the more ballot rankings they make in excess of the number of ingredients being elected, the greater the potential is for dilution of their other preferences. Voters, taking account of the agency that is theirs, may choose not to rank some ballot choices, including not ranking the NOTA / NOC choice for this reason. Proposal #1161 asks future Floor Managers to issue such a caution to delegates when ranked choice votes are announced.

Candidate Information

Yellow Onion
NA

Shallots
NA

Carrots
NA

Celery
NA

Turnip
NA

Kale
NA

White Beans
NA

Navy Beans
NA

Barley
NA

Garlic
NA

MSG
NA

Salt
NA

Pepper
NA

Potatoes
NA

Parsley
NA

Chicken Bones
NA

Lentils
NA

Pork Sausage
NA

Tempeh
NA

Tomatoes
NA

Bok Choy
NA

Spinach
NA

Chicken Breast Meat
NA

White Wine
NA

NOC
NA

Horseradish
NA

Canteloupe
NA

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